What I did to make the Everex ready for patrons

The first thing I did was download and burn Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Herron to a disk.Â This was eventually done on a “gasp” Windows machine, since the gOS burning software was somehow not able to burn a readable .iso.Â So…

I then went to System>Administration>Login Window.Â On the security tab I checked Enable Timed Login, set the user to guest and set the time to 10 seconds.Â This means that when the machine is turned on it will allow you ten seconds to login as someone other then guest, otherwise guest will be logged in automatically without entering a password.

I put it out for patrons to use.Â So far one patron has been on for about an hour and she has had no problems.Â She says it is working fine.Â It will be very interesting to see how this works as we go forward.

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The Fiddling Librarian 3.0 is Kevin Smithâ€™s personal weblog. Kevin is a recent graduate with an MLS from IUPUI. Kevin is the Assistant Director of the Cass District Library which is in Cass County Michigan.